We have decided to open the TEEN DAY 5th period classes to participants who are not currently enrolled in the TEEN DAY program. Interested homeschoolers between the ages of 12 and 18 can select from the clubs offered during our 5th period, Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm. Classes are offered for either the Fall session (Sept 11 – Dec 11) or Spring session (Jan 15 – May 21). The cost to participate is $35 for the session, to offset our building rental. To register for a 5th period class, contact the TEEN DAY administrator.
Novel Writing/NaNoWriMo (Fall):
Come write a novel during our bonus 5th period! We’ll spend September and October learning about the important aspects of novel writing, honing book ideas, and outlining. Then in November, we’ll participate in NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, and try to write a novel in a month (or try to write 50,000 words of your novel during that month). If you don’t finish your novel in November, you can keep on writing until you do. In the spring, we’ll gather as a weekly writing group, sharing our writing and getting feedback from the group on novels and/or other writings (poems, essays, short fiction, etc). If interested, novel writers can spend the spring revising their novels, getting them into shape for publication.
Writer’s Group (Spring):
Those who participated in the Novel Writing class in the Fall can continue to work on their novel in this writer’s group. Those not involved in Novel Writing will write and present original works of any variety to share with the group to get help with revision and general feedback.
Model United Nations (Spring):
Check out this spring-only 5th period happening! Join us in preparing for and participating in Cornell University’s Model United Nations Conference (CMUNC) April 19-22, 2018. The CMUNC is an annual high school model UN conference hosted by the Cornell International Affairs Society (CIAS) at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. CMUNC is a simulation of United Nations and other international bodies, which allows students to take on the roles of diplomats around the world. CMUNC seeks to promote awareness of the many issues facing the international community, and to give students the opportunity to engage in critical thinking about how to address those issues. Students or “delegates” must step into the shoes of the country or position they are assigned. Participants will work together to research their assigned country, write a country position paper for submission, get to know their particular role/committee, and finally, spend the weekend as a part of our simulated delegation at this international conference!
It is important that those signing up are committed to following through as part of the MUN team for the full semester. Additionally, the conference is for high school-aged participants only. If there are middle school-aged people at Teen Day who are interested, please contact me about ways you can help participate in the research and planning.
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